IIS PHP Performance

[Hasan Ceylan]

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Hi All,

I have IIS 5.0 Windows 2K SPs and patches sitting on a dual P3 1000
Mhz. box with RAID.

When I do a stress test with MS IIS web stress tool, system cannot
handle more than 50 request / sec. On the other hand asp has no
problem with 5 - 10 times more.

To test it further more I tried to determine where the most of cycle
spent I came to a conclusion that it is actually not the parsing and
running of the script but loading the php module. I tried the same
test with an empty php file results are almost the same which suggests
I think, only thing done is php module is loaded.

I suppose the libraries are being loaded and disposed so much, so it
has something to do something with caching.

Being a big fan of open source community I was dissappointed with
that.

So am I right that
- This is related to initialization of php for each request?
- Is there a way to cache php?

Thanks in advance,
Hasan Ceylan